We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Each word bears its weight so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

I like poems that are little games.

I still read Donne particularly his love poems.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems seeing a painting listening to some music some opera which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time poems and prose too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way and I didn't need much I was unmarried at the time no children.