I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.