It Should Be Of The Pleasure Of

I Never Take My Own Side In A Quarrel.

I Believe In Teaching, But I Don’t Believe In Going To School.

You've Often Heard Me Say - Perhaps Too Often - That Poetry Is What Is Lost In Translation. It Is Also What Is Lost In Interpretation. That Little Poem Means Just What It Says And It Says What It Means, Nothing Less But Nothing More.

Humour Is The Most Engaging Cowardice. With It Myself I Have Been Able To Hold Some Of My Enemy In Play Far Out Of Gunshot.

I Could Define Poetry This Way: It Is That Which Is Lost Out Of Both Prose And Verse In Translation.