Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale.

The underprivileged are byproduct of society’s material progress.

There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan.

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

When I took up running, it was like meeting God himself. I have been running ever since.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.