Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

Time has told me less than I need to know.

What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?

Success is anything that gives you strength to work harder.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan.

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal.

Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.

Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.