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For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

The day then trapped me in its iron bars of phone calls and meetings, letters to read, letters to write, decisions to make, promises to break.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well.

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage

The weapon of memory, turned on the self, is an apocalyptic sword.

Was my sin basically one of untruthfulness? Or, more likely, one of cowardice? But the liar knows the truth. The coward knows his fear and runs away.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision
the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

Sissy,travelling down the road with you was all I have ever wanted in life.
The beauty of it! No matter how long this takes, I'll wait.

Life is usually loved more than our most sacred love. In that knowledge lies the beginning of our cruelty and of our survival.

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths.

She's always loved writers, even more than the books I think. They're like personal friends to her.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.