“Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.” — Wislawa Szymborska Quote

“Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.”

“I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.”

“In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.”

“There is always going to be a point where your form becomes patchy and it's down to how long it lasts really.”

“I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.”

“The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.”