I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.

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

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

All poetry comes from repetition.

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.

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