Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed..

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother ….

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort..

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet..

Them lady poets must not marry, pal..

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be..

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die..

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie..

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers..

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature..

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead y….

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more..

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and o….

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise y….

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business..

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources..

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made..

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place..

something has been said for sobriety but very little..

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats..

I can offer you only: this world like a knife.