Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
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
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
I have no fondness for pure form at all.