Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.