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

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

All time is unreedemable.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.