Talent imitates, genius steals.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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

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

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.