The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

We must play our part and do all we can to multiply the people of God

Have faith, let go, and gravitate towards.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.