We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.