Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

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

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.