Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function...
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my...
I have always made my own rules in poetry as in life - though I have tried...
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas as it were.
Each word bears its weight so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and...
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and...
Yes I do often write poems from the mind but I hope I don't ignore feelings...
