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

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.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

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

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.

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!