It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.
Roy Fuller
2.
Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.
Roy Fuller
3.
Water inflated the belly
Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
Coleridge was a dope.
Southwell died on a rope.
Roy Fuller
4.
The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.
Roy Fuller
5.
Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes
The god inside the car