About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.