Poets sing our human music for us.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.