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.

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

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

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.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.