An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting unstable and interactive.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do I'll write a bad poem.

Everyone needs solitude especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

When you're going through something whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody you often feel like 'Oh my God I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact poetry's a nice reminder that no everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness war and peace rise and fall only that person has truly experienced life.

Those who have experienced the most have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me with her compassion patience and understanding.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.