We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. – Allen Tate
Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of governments failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place. – Russell Pearce
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, its so grimly brutal! – Robert Creeley
