Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.