All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.