What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.