Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made....
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my information...
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language though so I am always aware of every word's meaning or multiple meanings.