I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way

I don't like writing essays or theory.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands

Politics is not about power.

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.