You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.