Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'