Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

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

The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

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.