Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.