There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

Your absence has gone through me