Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems