Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.