The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.