Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another either by argument or emotional appeal.

I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

Chansons possibles ou impossibles

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.