Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs. - W. H. Auden

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?