The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.