Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.

A good poem about failure is a success.

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can't come again, But is for others undiminished somewhere.

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.