“The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.”

The real war will never get in the books.

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Where the earth is, we are.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.