Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.