Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.