Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

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

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.

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

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

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