As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.

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

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.