A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.