The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.