I Think Writing About Unhappiness Is Probably

I Can't Understand These Chaps Who Go Round American Universities Explaining How They Write Poems: It's Like Going Round Explaining How You Sleep With Your Wife.

I'd Like To Think...that People In Pubs Would Talk About My Poems

I Have Wished You Something None Of The Others Would.

The Poetic Impulse Is Distinct From Ideas About Things Or Feelings About Things, Though It May Use These. It's More Like A Desire To Separate A Piece Of One's Experience & Set It Up On Its Own, An Isolated Object Never To Trouble You Again, At Least Not For A Bit. In The Absence Of This Impulse Nothing Stirs.

To Write You Must Be Warm, Fed, Loved And Sober.