Poets sing our human music for us.

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.

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 always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

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

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

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.