Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.
What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
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.
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.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
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.
I think I know why you never married, Sarah. " "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.
I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.
In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.
Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady for a while.