Occupation: Poet Birth: August 9, 1922 Death: December 2, 1985
Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us..
Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence..
Most things may never happen: this one will..
As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like..
The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can't come….
Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that we can't escape, Yet ca….
They say eyes clear with age..
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession..
Clearly money has something to do with life..
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: ….
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….
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits..
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves..
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.
I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt..
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….
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve..
My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud..
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'.
In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love..
Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock..