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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.