Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them..

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose..

You change the rules or you are going under..

We must not be anything other than what we are..

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up..

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that..

Everything I make starts very personally..

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer..

I'm just going to continue to do the music that I love..

I just can't read music..

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion..

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing..

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them..

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun..

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971..

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart..

Your anger is a gift..

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules..

The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has nev….

Without someone telling you what you are doing is wrong, you can't say what you are doing is right..

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment..