If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.
I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.
Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.
Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.
What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.