Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way

I don't like writing essays or theory.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

God’s great love is the grace of redemption.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?