Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

For you know only a heap of broken images

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.