I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.