I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Life is opinion.

Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

[Critics] could not forgive Jane Fonda for doing fluff, like she had to do something with mucho gravitas, which is B.S.,