These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.