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

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

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

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

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.

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

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