I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

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

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.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

One is always nearer by not keeping still.