Occupation: Poet Birth: August 9, 1922 Death: December 2, 1985
When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If….
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only yo….
No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free..
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!.
Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter; And those she has l….
To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober..
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said..
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that the….
Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood..
Walk with the dead For fear of death..
Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about..
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three..
My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there..
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself..
I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it….
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth..
Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth..
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted..
In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change..
But superstition, like belief, must die..
Originality is being different from oneself, not others..