There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

I can offer you only: this world like a knife

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.