Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

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

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

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.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.