We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

I am too old to think.

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.