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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
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Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
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We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
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It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
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Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.
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The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.
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Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.
