On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)