When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

My husband says spring will be early.He says this every year, And every year I disagree.He needs me, the dark side of the planetary equation.Together we make the equinox.

I thought if only we could go onand meet again, shy as strangers.

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

I would rather rudder

Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.

I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

Being a running back helped me tremendously. It taught me judgement in the defense and how to judge the football.