I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.