I don't think that we should underestimate the capacity of tenderness that poetry opens within us.

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other poems that were written by other people, when I had tried to integrate my reading and my writing I was on my path.