Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.