It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.

It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.