Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.