"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a m..." — W. H. Auden

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.