I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action

Life is a Rainbow of many shades and colours...

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.

Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.