Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the futu… - W. H. Auden

On that arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe; On that tableland scored by rivers, Our thoughts have bodies; the menacing shapes of our fever<p>Are precise and alive. For the fears which made us respond To the medicine ad and the brochure of winter cruises
Have become invading battalions; And our faces, the institute-face, the chain-store, the ruin<p>Are projecting their greed as the firing squad and the bomb. Madrid is the heart. Our moments of tenderness blossom As the ambulance and the sandbag; Our hours of friendship into a people's army.'''

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.