There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

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.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.