The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.