You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.