"There is nothing to be said except about the sheer waste and futility of it all. It is the war all over again, when o…"

"Nothing matters, and everything matters."

"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to be or remain a civilized man."

"The more complicated the life of a community or the more "advanced" the civilization, the more complicated, incessant…"

"The barbarian is...not only at our gates; he is always within the walls of our civilization, inside our minds and our…"

"Novels by serious writers of genius often eventually become best-sellers, but most contemporary best-sellers are writ…"

"One of the most horrible things at that time was to listen on the wireless to the speeches of Hitler, the savage and …"

"I don’t believe in empire, and I actively resist colonialism and its toxic and enduring legacy."

"The season of the rose is brief, make haste to pluck your posies; Another day you’ll chance to find bare thorns where…"

"Though not a few of the poems in the present volume could not be included in anthologies intended for general circula…"