I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.

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

Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.