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.

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.

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

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.

Ghana is like a lion without a head

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