"[Death:] The one inexorable thing!"

-- Louise Imogen Guiney

“I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!”
“It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.”
“Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.”
“Kindness is stronger than iron bars.”
“A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.”
“As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.”
“I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.”
“a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isnâ€™t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.”

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