I know too much and not enough

You are what you think about all day.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.