When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,

Yes, we did many things, then - all
Beautiful...

I am so immensely proud to be representing my country at the Athens Olympic Games, that's more than enough for me.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'