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

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

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

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

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

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