Poets Sing Our Human Music For Us.

I Like To Think That I'm A Sort Of Poet For Our Times.

The Moment Of Inspiration Can Come From Memory, Or Language, Or The Imagination, Or Experience - Anything That Makes An Impression Forcibly Enough For Language To Form.

I Write Quite A Lot Of Sonnets, And I Think Of Them Almost As Prayers: Short And Memorable, Something You Can Recite.

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.

I Think All Poets Must Feel This: That There Is Constantly Something New To Be Discovered In The Language. It's Like A Thrilling Encounter, And You Can Find Things.