Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Poets sing our human music for us.

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

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.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.