I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.

Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.