Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the “democratic” lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

It’s wonderful to be hated by idiots.

It’s hard to lose when your standards are so low.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

If you love language, it will love you back.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.