Rainer Maria Rilke

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.