Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

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

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

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