Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.
When I am alone I am happy.
There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.
It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
The pure products of America go crazy
The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.