All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth – a small machine.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

I think we've always been better live.

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

Found a smoldering cigarette left by a horse.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.