And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.
I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.
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.
Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.