To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.