Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

The end of art is peace.

If self is a location, so is love.

Poetry is language in orbit.

I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.