That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.