‘Life continually circled in cold inaccessible serenity around unhappy Earth’
‘nothing in those early evenings free / of care could have prepared you’
‘Certain moments send adrenaline to the heart, dry out the tongue’
‘Red sadness never appears sad . . . it appears in flashes of passion, anger, fear, inspiration and courage, in dark unsellable visions; it is an upside down penny concealed beneath a tea cosy.’
‘So many thugs in any century how crush them all? / All passports stamped for the underworld’