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

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

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

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.

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

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.