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Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
I am moving deeper into my own brain.
As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know.
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
In the New World, happiness is enforced.
The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.
We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.
I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.