How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

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.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

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.

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.