And a rejection today from The Tusculum Review.

A rejection from Tar Wolf Review today. The editor indicated that she liked "The Day the Wall Came Down" the best from the group of five poems

Where has all my enthusiasm gone?

Yesterday I received a rejection from Phoebe.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked with them to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. When they come . . . they come as things in themselves; it is a matter of felicitous juggling!; and no amount of will or emotion can help the thing a bit.

--from The Letters of Hart Crane, November 26, 1921

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

--Lucille Clifton


Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

--Heinrich Heine