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.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
This love is silent.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
