Occupation: Poet Birth: August 9, 1922 Death: December 2, 1985
You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train..
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night..
I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down,….
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….
I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand..
Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd..
I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear..
But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing!.
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end..
In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most….
Death is no different whined at than withstood..
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?.
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems..
Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sh….
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind..
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep wit….
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..
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems.
Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick..
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day..
On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes..