“And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.”

“Whoever is content, would be of good cheer.”

“But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulne...”

“The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic.”

“I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.”

“Today ain't in the mood to write... btw my name is Stevy.”

“Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.We laughed, knowing that better men would come,And greater wars: whe...”

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”