The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited…
(from his television adaption of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End) A flat in Holborn! I couldn't have imagined anything more…