Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in some ways the great ideological wars of the 20th century that cost so many lives had to do with whether to have managed economies directed by government or economies directed by the free movement of capital, which is only partially subject to government regulation.

Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.