“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”

“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”

“On the project The Celts I was asked to … to write a song. And, at the time I was … arranging with Nicky, and writing the music and performing … so, no desire whatsoever to write lyrics!… But Roma was actually writing poetry at the time, and she was involved, with listening in the studio … being the audience in the studio … so she was involved with the project. So, it was very obvious that she would write the lyrics.”

“She is a sensitive poet who, unfortunately, cannot write.”

“She is one of the most brilliant poets ever and has inspired thousands to write poetry on the level of the Vogons and cause widespread fear of such good poetry.”

“What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom”

“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”

“She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.”

“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”

“You can’t lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.”