To Write You Must Be Warm, Fed,

Give Me A Thrill, Says The Reader, Give Me A Kick; I Don't Care How You Succeed, Or What Subject You Pick.

To Start At A New Place Is Always To Feel Incompetent & Unwanted.

You Can't Put Off Being Young Until You Retire.

Only In Books The Flat And Final Happens, Only In Dreams We Meet And Interlock.

As A Guiding Principle I Believe That Every Poem Must Be Its Own Sole Freshly Created Universe, And Therefore Have No Belief N 'tradition' Or A Common Myth-kitty Or Casual Allusions In Poems To Other Poems Or Poets, Which Last I Find Unpleasantly Like The Talk Of Literary Understrappers Letting You See They Know The Right People.