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.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

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.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

I have no fondness for pure form at all.