You cannot mix sports with politics.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Alliance - in international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

When governments become large voters cannot exercise close oversight otherwise known as political power.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose I can only do what I am given and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

There are men who can write poetry and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.