What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.