I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.