Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again
I wanted to be successful, not famous
I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
