“I believe everyone has this fuckin' poem in his heart.”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“Do what you love, and what you're proud of, and you're fuckin' bulletproof. You're fuckin' bulletproof. If you do what you absolutely believe to be right, then you're fuckin' bulletproof.”

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”

“I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.”

“You must believe: a poem is a holy thing — a good poem, that is.”

“The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.”

“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”

“Don."
"Yeah."
"Why don't people believe?"
"Why don't they believe what?"
"In God."
"I don't know. Not everyone has a Volkswagen.”