I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

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

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

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.