The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

The pressure is definitely on, ... Every single point is all important and we will be going for every one we can get. We have finished in the top five in the past nine events and don't have any intention of giving a single inch.

The plane had finished taxiing and passengers were preparing to deplane when the passenger opened a right catering door and jumped out of the plane.

The prime minister's operation was finished a few minutes ago. He was taken to the CT (computed tomography) scanner unit.

The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplished craftsmanship nor even correct grammar but a frank report of the things a writer has done, seen, and thought. None of these can be learned in the library or classroom. They have to be learned in the unsheltered world of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten into their heads.