You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

Poetry and prayer are very similar.