It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.