See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.