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

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.

Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.