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

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

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

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

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.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.