Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.

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.

In this vast universe when I was getting lost, you made me infinite with infinite love.

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

I think brands should go back to being more specialised and focused on particular market segments. Sometimes the business you don’t do is more important than that which you actually do.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.