I don’t expect you’ll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

I'm not going to put my lot in with economists.

I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.

I will not talk of non-intervention, for it is not an English word.

And not to serve for a table-talk.

I will simply not do penance.

I don’t want people to consume our suffering. I am not tragic. I don’t want to be pathology porn so I don’t write it.

Now, I have no desire for poetry or joy,
yet I will make nothing better by crying,
nor worse by seeking good foods and pleasure.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

He will not do death the honor of taking it into account.

Je ne suis pas le Styx pour t'embrasser neuf fois.

I am not a witchdoctor.

I will leave no memoirs.

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.