I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

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

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I just didn't want to shoot other people.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

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.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.