It May Be That Universal

The Flattery Of Posterity Is Not Worth Much More Than Contemporary Flattery, Which Is Worth Nothing.

I Think Of Myself Primarily As A Reader, Then Also A Writer, But That's More Or Less Irrelevant. I Think I'm A Good Reader, I'm A Good Reader In Many Languages, Especially In English, Since Poetry Came To Me Through The English Language, Initially Through My Father's Love Of Swinburn, Of Tennyson, And Also Of Keats, Shelley And So On - Not Through My Native Tongue, Not Through Spanish. It Came To Me As A Kind Of Spell. I Didn't Understand It, But I Felt It.

I Secretly Assumed, As Poets Do, The Duty On Me To Define The Moon.

We Are As Ignorant Of The Meaning Of The Dragon As We Are Of The Meaning Of The Universe.

A Book Is Not An Isolated Being: It Is A Relationship, An Axis Of Innumerable Relationships