I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I believe that open-heart surgery is a mustfor all human beings

orn born everything is always bornthinking about it try not to

Tears upon the dry sponge of heartdo not prove I am Promethean.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.

moonrisesettle back with muffins and teauntil the window empties

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Les rêves sont seuls les réalités de la vie.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost