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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

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.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

The stars are filming us for no one.

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play.

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

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.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

I think of him in certain lights, dawn, late afternoon,...

And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue

I took an axe
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept.

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.

No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.

How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?

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

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.

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

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

The Latin names of plants blur like belief.

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

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

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.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

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.

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Love's language starts, stops, starts;
the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.

Poets sing our human music for us.

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.