To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

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

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

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.