The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a private mythology of tigers, of blades, of labyrinths, and I"m unaware of the fact this is so. My readers are finding it all the time. But I think perhaps that is the duty of poet.