Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”
“It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.”