All Literature, Is, Finally Autobiographical.

What I'm Really Concerned About Is Reaching One Person. And That Person May Be Myself For All I Know.

I Think Of Myself Primarily As A Reader, Then Also A Writer, But That's More Or Less Irrelevant. I Think I'm A Good Reader, I'm A Good Reader In Many Languages, Especially In English, Since Poetry Came To Me Through The English Language, Initially Through My Father's Love Of Swinburn, Of Tennyson, And Also Of Keats, Shelley And So On - Not Through My Native Tongue, Not Through Spanish. It Came To Me As A Kind Of Spell. I Didn't Understand It, But I Felt It.

I Believe That In Time We Will Have Reached The Point Where We Will Deserve To Be Free Of Government.

It Means Much To Have Loved, To Have Been Happy, To Have Laid My Hand On The Living Garden, Even For A Day.

We Have Shared Out, Like Thieves, The Amazing Treasures Of Days And Nights.