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!

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

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

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

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.