(1) To touch as many souls as I can through poetry.

(2) To share only my most elegant, high-quality writings.

(3) To inspire tender, wistful, romantic feelings devoid of cynicism and darkness.

(4) To impart sensuality without being explicit or crude.

(5) To create a little world in my poetry that the reader wishes could last forever.

- Raymond C. Sison, Sunnyvale, California, 30 June 1998