Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

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

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

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