When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

I just didn't want to shoot other people.

Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.