If you don't mark your successes the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office and there's no poetry in that.
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology....
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'