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.

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.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

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.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.