Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

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.

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.