By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.