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.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.