I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Poetry is a mug's game.
It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.