Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.