Occupation: Poet Birth: August 9, 1922 Death: December 2, 1985
Most things may never happen: this one will..
Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us..
Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick..
Clearly money has something to do with life..
I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear..
Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence..
I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he sh….
All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives..
But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing!.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much….
In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love..
In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change..
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end..
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in..
On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes..
I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a r….
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back.
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits..
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day..
Originality is being different from oneself, not others..
I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt..