I did not want to put myself on the line as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric vast and wild.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us but we sip only little by...
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime it is in...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
