“Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”

“I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”

“I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”

“Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”

“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:It is what you fear.I do not fear it: I have been there.--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”

“O love, how did you get here?--from "Nick and the Candlestick", written 29 October 1962”

“A ring of gold with the sun in it?Lies. Lies and a grief.--from "The Couriers", written 4 November 1962”