Harvard Meant A Lot In My Writing

Hope Is Not Optimism, Which Expects Things To Turn Out Well, But Something Rooted In The Conviction That There Is Good Worth Working For.

The Way We Are Living, Timorous Or Bold, Will Have Been Our Life.

I Credit Poetry For Making This Space-walk Possible.

There Is Risk And Truth To Yourselves And The World Before You.

It Has As Much To Do With The Energy Released By Linguistic Fission And Fusion, With The Buoyancy Generated By Cadence And Tone And Rhyme And Stanza, As It Has To Do With The Poem's Concerns Or The Poet's Truthfulness.