'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.'

'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'

'A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.'

So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his…

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

I cannot write anything that I understand too well. If I know what something means to me, if I have already come to the end of it as an experience, I can't wri…

Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing gu…