“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”

“Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.”

“Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.”

“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

“Give me hunger, pain and want,Shut me out with shame and failureFrom your doors of gold and fame,Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!But leave me a little love.”

“Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.”

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”