Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.