I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?

If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles.

Freedom gives room for creativity.

Technology & Science is what you make it!!!

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either.

I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.