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Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.