The nurse is the night To wake to, to die in: and the day I live, The world and its life are her dreams.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkne…

And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our he…

Delmore carries such a petty, personally involved, New Yorkish atmosphere around with him it's almost unpleasant for me to see him. He thinks that Schiller and…

When someone's body can no longer perform its functions in the natural world in response to the thoughts and affections of its spirit (which it derives from th…

At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.

The man of flesh and bone; the man who is born, suffers, and dies-above all, who dies; the man who eats and drinks and plays and sleeps and thinks and wills; t…