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.

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

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

Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.

I just got my blood running with so much love.

It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.