Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

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

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

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.