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.
From W. H. Auden
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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.
Now is the age of anxiety.
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