Poetry and prayer are very similar.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Searching for what's beyond appearances opens our divine eyes to see the concealed facts in experience.

Love is a disease – ultimately you get sick of each other

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

Rest when you need to, but never quit.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.