Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct from many other kinds of verbal societies, meaning and being are identical. A poem might be called a pseudo-person. Like a person, it is unique and addresses the reader personally. On the other hand, like a natural being and unlike a historical person, it cannot lie.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.