All poetry comes from repetition.

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

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've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

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