Poets sing our human music for us.

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.

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.

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.

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

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

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