Al Alvarez Poet Quotations

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else.

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.