"The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it." — T. S. Eliot

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.