For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?