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

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!

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

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.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

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.