Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

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 like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

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