I Have Started To Say "a Quarter

If You Tell A Novelist, 'life's Not Like That', He Has To Do Something About It. The Poet Simply Replies, 'no, But I Am.'

One Of The Great Criticisms Of Poets Of The Past Is That They Said One Thing And Did Another.

You Can't Put Off Being Young Until You Retire.

The Trees Are Coming Into Leaf Like Something Almost Being Said.

As A Guiding Principle I Believe That Every Poem Must Be Its Own Sole Freshly Created Universe, And Therefore Have No Belief N 'tradition' Or A Common Myth-kitty Or Casual Allusions In Poems To Other Poems Or Poets, Which Last I Find Unpleasantly Like The Talk Of Literary Understrappers Letting You See They Know The Right People.