It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.