There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things – read and write – and wait.

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind.

Give but a grain of the heart’s rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.

We shall not always plant while others reap.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call ’the breaks.

The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.