Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.

How do I feel when I am invited to a congregation of scientists? I feel quite at home. When they break into their cultic scientific argot, I know when I'm not wanted and step out for a drink.