Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
Philip LarkinOne of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
Philip LarkinThe poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
Philip Larkin