Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.

We need to learn to dance more softly.

Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more.