But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

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

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

I just didn't want to shoot other people.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.