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.

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.

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.

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy

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

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.