That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is