Poetry might change your life

“Poetry inspires, soothes and delights. Besides being a kind of therapy in times of difficulty, it can become an absorbing interest and much more too. It is my passion and my delight and it took me on a journey from being nothing to being something. Today I don’t just write poetry, I also write about poetry and about poets; I am helping my dad write a book on the subject ‘Poetry Changes Lives’.

I love the comment of English poet W H Auden: ‘Poetry makes nothing happen’. Try saying that with emphasis on the last word.”