And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

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

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

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

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.

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