Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

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

As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.