What counts is the cultural level

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera.