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.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

All poetry comes from repetition.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

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.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.