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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

Growing up, I saw the world as an inspiring place full of interesting people.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.