I have no fondness for pure form at all.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

I just have to practice hard, get better, and go out there and win impressively - that's all it comes down to.

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.