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" My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. "

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" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "

" In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. "

" I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. "

" The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. "

" It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme. "

" To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there. "

" Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. "

" I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on. "

" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "

" I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you. "

" I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. "

" As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. "

" The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world. "

" If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries. "

" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "

" I've been in the habit of helping people. "

" I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. "

" I spend almost every morning with mail. "

" Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. "

" I believe we are put here to improve civilisation. "

" Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. "

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

" Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started. "

" One doesn't want one's identity coerced. "

" The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. "

" Sonnet is about movement in a form. "

" In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. "

" The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination. "

" Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. "

" My passport's green. "