To Write You Must Be Warm, Fed,

Since The Majority Of Me Rejects The Majority Of You, Debating Ends Forthwith, And We Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Only In Books The Flat And Final Happens, Only In Dreams We Meet And Interlock.

As A Guiding Principle I Believe That Every Poem Must Be Its Own Sole Freshly Created Universe, And Therefore Have No Belief N 'tradition' Or A Common Myth-kitty Or Casual Allusions In Poems To Other Poems Or Poets, Which Last I Find Unpleasantly Like The Talk Of Literary Understrappers Letting You See They Know The Right People.

But Superstition, Like Belief, Must Die.

A Writer Can Have Only One Language, If Language Is Going To Mean Anything To Him.