I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.