I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.