You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask.

- W. D. Snodgrass

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

- W. D. Snodgrass

Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange dogs at night and the moles tunnel…

- W. D. Snodgrass

I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing f…

- W. D. Snodgrass

And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?

- W. D. Snodgrass

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

- W. D. Snodgrass

The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.

- W. D. Snodgrass

I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.

- W. D. Snodgrass