Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

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

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.