Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow…Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something
― A Man Without a Country
KV was one of the finest writers the world has had, and I know from personal experience quite a funny guy, in his own way of course. Even though the Harvard commencement speech was a joke it contained plain and simple wisdom for the ages. (And no he really didn’t write it.)