I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.