There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.