One Of The Virtues Of The Nhs...

John Mcenroe Has Hair Like Badly Turned Broccoli.

The Inevitable Effect Of A Biographer's Hindsight Is To Belittle The Subject's Foresight.

This Quality Becomes Important At A Time When Almost Everyone Is A Poet. And As I Said, We Live In An Age Where Almost Everybody Is A Poet, But Scarcely Anyone Can Write A Poem.

Pound Had Argued - And Eliot Had Helped Him Prove - That A Poem Could Be Sustained By Memorable Moments. Olson Proved That It Could Be Sustained By Unmemorable Ones, Provided That The Texture Of The Accumulated Jottings Avoided The Sound Of Failed Poetry.

It Is Only When They Go Wrong That Machines Remind You How Powerful They Are.