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

I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

Here is an unfenced existance

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

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

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.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.