Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.

Men are immortal till their work is done.

Don't live only in your head. It's lonely and it's dangerous.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that's wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field

I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.