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I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

I hardly ever look at my published books.

Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.

A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.

Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting."

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.