Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

[Tolerance] is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as …