Clyde King Quotes

The NOW is all you have and all you will ever have. There is never a time or a moment when it is not the NOW.

Write a poem everyday.

"Painting is about putting one beautiful color next to another".-Robert Henri, early 20th century artist and teacher

Poetry is not about quantity, but quality. Finding the right words, rhythms, diction, syntax, idioms, figurations, takes work.

Always wear clean underwear.-my mother, Betty Lee King

You have two ears and one mouth. What does that suggest? -Socrates

Know thyself.-Socrates

One day you realize that your life has only been a day's journey to an unknown destiny.

We are our worst enemies, sometimes.

Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare (this also applies to writing prose and poetry because there is "no worse death than being talked to death."-Mark Twain)