The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.