There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.

Death is what makes life fun.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.