“There stole into my mind Coleridge's poignant lines:
Ah God! It is fell Christmas-tide
So to the shops I hie;
And my shopping-list, like the Albatross,
About my neck doth lie.
This was to be included in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" but was dropped to please Wordsworth, who secretly held shares in a large toy-shop and was afraid it might hurt business.”

The Circus Animals' Desertion, III
Last Poems (1936-1939)

Asked why he gets up and goes to work every day.
Tavis Smiley interview (2004)

Asserting that all of her jewelry were gifts from her husband, children and "even the dog," as quoted in an Associated Press report (April 1998).

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

What It Is (2009)

[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/181225396694560769]
Tweets by year, 2012

Source: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/, IV
Context: My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

Maiden Speech (1996)

Shop Around, written by Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy, Jr. (1960)
Song lyrics, With The Miracles