I did try once. It read like particularly ill-done Aldous Huxley.'' If he could choose his own gifts, he'd be a composer. I've been much more interested in music than in literature. It's a real art. Literature is just scratching the surface a bit.
Music has thousands of references but no meaning.
That is such an escape. Not their fault. So he's pleased to have a chance to take part in the Melbourne concerts, which feature music and poems, by himself and others, influenced by or derived from music. The Voice of Love , with words by Porter and music by British composer Nicholas Maw. He still writes about 40 poems a year, though he thinks only about 10 of those will be any good.