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

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

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

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.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.