I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Many of my poems are not sexual.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
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.
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.