I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.

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

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

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.