I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice.

I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.

All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.