M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.