The ones who are not poets expect something of what they think is poetry, which I don't propose to give them. What I write is for people to understand who are on the same, as they say, wavelength as myself. But the audience is presumably there. They are people whom you can trust in a crisis, and people who will never do anything mean. And they don't argue logically.
Logical argument is what destroys poetry because poetry is beyond logic.
I think it's probably memory, some inherited bardic memory. Yes, very much. Wales has been so full of poetry for so long that there are probably more potential poets there and in Ireland and in New Zealand among the Maoris than there are elsewhere. It's a question of memory. In 'Goodbye to All That ' you've written about what Wales meant to you when you were a child living in Harlech.