“If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
“What we now call ''finance'' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.”
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
“A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”