On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

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.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

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