I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986..

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots..

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear..

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier..

My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you can’t be signed up This….

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you..

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up..

Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs..

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more..

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because ….

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I ….

There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake ….

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you'r….

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school..

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinkin….

On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not ….

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a h….

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it..

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25..

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance..