No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
From Felix Dennis
I cannot abide being bored.
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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