Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

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

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

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)