My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

One is always nearer by not keeping still.