I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

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

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

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

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