“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”

“Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda.”

“I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.”

“I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.”

“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”

“Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.”

“Love is poetry plus biology.”

“Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry…about the country, the suburbs and the seaside…then there comes love…and increasingly, the fear of death.”

“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”

“I am very driven when it comes to poetry, a complete obsessive of the truth be told.”