I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Source: In Writers on Themselves; by John Updike; in NY Times, 17 Aug 1986.
-- Philip Larkin, (Aug 9 1922-1985), English poet, author, librarian; He gave expression to a clipped, antiromantic sensibility prevalent in English verse; wrote Jill, 1940 and High Windows, 1974.