Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.