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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.