Originality is being different from oneself, not others.
A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Clearly money has something to do with life.
I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.