Past art is subject to change.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

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.

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

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.