I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.
It feels a long way up and down from zero.
I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
Fighting dragons is my holy joy.
I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.