I Think If You Put Something In

I Was Appointed Poet Laureate. It Came Totally Out Of The Blue Because Most Poet Laureates Had Been Considerably Older Than I. It Was Not Something That I Even Had Begun To Dream About!

To Write For Pc Reasons, Because You Think You Ought To Be Dealing With This Subject, Is Never Going To Yield Anything That Is Really Going To Matter To Anyone Else. It Has To Matter To You.

I've Always Been Intrigued By The Way History Works, The Way We Decide What Is Mentioned.

My First Advice Would Be To Read, Read, Read, Which Sounds Interesting Coming In A Digital Age, But It's So Much Easier To Listen To A Poem Than It Is To Sit Down And Actually Read It And To Hear It In Your Head And That Is Something That Every Poet Or Aspiring Poet Needs To Be Able To Do, I Think To Hear It In Their Head.

One Definition Of Eternity Is That We Are Not Alone On This Planet, That There Are Those Who've Gone Before And Those Who Will Come, And That There Is A Community Of Spirits.