The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.