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)

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

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.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

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.

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.