Benjamin Zephaniah | 'I think poetry should be alive. You should be able to dance to it.'

'A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it.  He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.  He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe.  To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.'