All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.