My body was braille for the creeping influences.

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Poetry is language in orbit.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.