[t]eaching Has Been For Me An Education

Short Stories Amount For The Most Part To Parlour Tricks, Party Favours With Built-in Snappers, Gadgets For Including Recognition And Reversals

When I Was Starting To Write, The Great Influence Was T.s. Eliot And After That William Butler Yeats.

History Is One Of Those Marvelous And Necessary Illusions We Have To Deal With. It's One Of The Ways Of Dealing With Our World With Impossible Generalities Which We Couldn't Live Without.

[t]eaching Has Been For Me An Education (lord Knows What It Has Been For My Students).

I've Never Read A Political Poem That's Accomplished Anything. Poetry Makes Things Happen, But Rarely What The Poet Wants.