A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. FORSTER
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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