Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
“I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.”
“I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.”