Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

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.

It's only crazy if we fail.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They're genuinely excited and appreciative that you're playing their country.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.

Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.

I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

If you don't open up, we're going to lose each other down the road