Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.