"All I am is in my verse."

"I'm no novelist.Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while."

"You can find out far more about a writer from his poems or fiction ..because in his stories or poems, his preoccupati…"

"The poet , absorbed in the solving of formal problems, the struggle with slippery eels of language, has no time for d…"

"The great artist may be, outside the confines of his art, cruel, weak, arrogant and foolish, but within them he can t…"

"I believe one of the functions of language used poetically is to explore experiences and hidden sources of behavior i…"

"In the excitement and rigours of the game or battle with words and shapes, self-interest is mislaid and objective tru…"

"Past events are not dead but constantly making their claims on the present, modifying it even as they themselves are …"

"The authentic British poetry of the second world war was not a poetry of protest, still less was it inspired by patri…"

"Well, here I suppose is my life, or part of it, by which I would wish to be judged... poems which have been written f…"