Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

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

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

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

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time