Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

I don't really think it will make much difference to me when I'm dead whether I'm read or not . . . just as whether I'm dead or not won't mean much to me when I'm dead.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.