I have wished you something None of the others would.

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP