Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

Love is proved in the letting go.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

We are here to know the unknown, love everyone, feel the joy of life and then we parish with infinite happiness.

Sermonettes make Christianettes.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.