dogs and angels are not very far apart

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

I am this fiery snail crawling home.

It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.