“..and only they, children, excellent students of their own self worth, do know the value of their lives - from 'Outside St Dominic's Priory. Snapshot, July 2015'”

“I myself am bored / of fig leaves, of shames / I did not choose” – from ‘About Ana’

“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself” – Derek Walcott

“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”