What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.
I dabbled in verse and it became my life
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.