I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.

Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.

You need a danger to be safe in.

I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.It is beautiful that they have to disappear.It's like the time you said I love you madly.That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.

Once more for Britain, � I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.

For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.