Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.