Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.