I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

In my beginning is my end.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.