The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. |
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. |
They carry / Time looped so river-wise about their house / There's no way in by history's road / To name or number them. |
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. |
To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start. |
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. |
War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre |
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall |
What we now call ''finance'' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. |
When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day. |
Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls / Married impossible men? |
You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm. |