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

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.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

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

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.