It takes a long time to publish a book.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.