It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.