I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

As I got older I really got into Tupac's poetry his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker and they liked us to learn poems by heart which I found I loved doing.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.