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 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.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems