The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

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