“The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living.”

“A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.”

“The glacier knocks in the cupboard,The desert sighs in the bed,And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.”

“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton”

“Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.”

“Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.”

“In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise”