However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

I don't think of myself all the time.

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

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

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

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