The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

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.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.