The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

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.

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.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.