Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segme…

When you write a poem, you discover that the very necessity of fitting your meaning into such and such a form requires you to search in your imagination for ne…

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

'My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On t…

'One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.'