I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.

Heavenly blessings are life, grace, hope, faith, love, inner peace, nature, family, friends….!

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.