
“Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains
“Christ,” p. 106
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
“Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains
on climate change
David A. Ridenour, "Senators Try to Stifle the Global Warming Debate," Chicago Sun Times, November 16, 2006
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
As quoted in Quote, Unquote (1989) by Jonathan Williams, p. 136
Masterpieces of Patriotic Urdu Poetry, p. 111
Poetry, Desire for Self-sacrifice
“Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's hand
Inflicts the blow.”
(3rd August 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the Second. Love touching the Horns of a Snail, which is shrinking from his hand.
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
On the Treaty of Versailles, as quoted in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (1946) by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, p. 754.