"Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The li…"

"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do."

"I am very honoured by your wanting to write a life of me. But the fact is I regard my life as rather a failure in the…"

"I simply had to get there."

"There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife."

"When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes …"

"I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymakin…"

"History is the ship carrying living memories to the future."

"I say, stamping the words with emphasis, Drink from here energy and only energy"

"The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framewor…"