You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.

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.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.