The Byronic Fallacy
It is possible that a day in a Kansas wheat field
will do more for Mr.Smith than three years in Rome.
Many men, some of whom possess genius, have gone
downhill since trying to write
a thousand dollar prize poem
or a ten thousand dollar prize opera.
How many masterpieces have we killed this way?
A cocktail will stimulate the appetite but not satisfy it.
No bishop would give a prize to the priest
who would love God the hardest for fifteen days.
Free thought and free love do not frequent
the same cafe. Everyone has the right to say
"fuck you" in the most cordial way —
but himself not his patrons must he obey.