And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.