I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

We are each the love of someone's life..

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me..

Any woman is sexual, absolutely..

I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor..

That's where the money is, on the road..

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

New words are always being born and old ones fading away..

Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either e….

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all..

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur..

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth..

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations..