From Casserole, Dec. 11, 1970.

From Casserole, Oct. 23, 1970.

Irving Layton, quoted in The Martlet, 1965.

From Ethos, 1932.

"So spins the flying world away."  From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

"Take life by the strings; it swings -- when you stand aside."  From Ethos, 1967.

From Chatterbox, 1914.

The moon is here [correctly] called "sleep's mystic amulet."  From Dorothy Frances Blomfield's Gurney's "Moon-Spell," 1913.

From The Current Sauce, 1957.

From Colorado College's 1909 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.

From Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background by Wayne Koestenbaum (coincidentally reflected in Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, 2019).

From Ethos, 1960.

"I am but a small-winged bird: / But I will conquer the big world / As the bee-martin beats the crow, / by attacking it always from Above."  From Poem Outlines by Sidney Lanier, 1908.

"Assignment: stay at a motel in a town without attractions.  Choose your town carefully—make sure it has no attractions."  From Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background by Wayne Koestenbaum.

If I were born a fish—

     but then,

No use to wish: Men

     must be Men.

From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.

From Ethos, 1952.

What a great way to end a poem:

Then sit, Cat!

Like a plaster sister of the cat that

Owned the house

A million aeons of a sunslicked second

Before.

From Ethos, 1959.

From Unknown, 1940.

Irving Layton, quoted in The Martlet, 1965.

From Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background by Wayne Koestenbaum.