No what I should really like to do right now in the full blaze of lights before this illustrious assembly is to shower every one of you with gifts with flowers with offerings of poetry - to be young once more to ride on the crest of the wave.
However I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
