I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

You can get a sense of the wonderful power of framing by holding your fingers up in a kind of square, walking around the room and framing it differently - how that changes the nature of what you think the room is like.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.