I Remember Mother Saying :

Whatever Can Happen To Anyone Can Happen To Me.

I Lived In The First Century Of World Wars. Most Mornings I Would Be More Or Less Insane.

I Remember Mother Saying : Inventors Are Like Poets, A Trashy Lot

The Process Of Writing A Poem Represents Work Done On The Self Of The Poet, In Order To Make Form.

Everywhere We Are Told That Our Human Resources Are All To Be Used, That Our Civilization Itself Means The Uses Of Everything It Has - The Inventions, The Histories, Every Scrap Of Fact. But There Is One Kind Of Knowledge - Infinitely Precious, Time-resistant More Than Monuments, Here To Be Passed Between The Generations In Any Way It May Be: Never To Be Used. And That Is Poetry.