If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didnt, Id ignore it. – Carol Ann Duffy
We have peace with Israel. Were actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, Why are we having this relationship when its not benefiting anybody? Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace. – King Abdullah II
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman
