“Deliver my soul from the sword,my darling from the power of the dog.”
“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
“Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean naivete and my faith.This morning, men deliver wounds and death.They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.”
“I will not cease from mental fightNor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”
“My body is precious and not separate from my soul.”
“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”