I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.