Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.