If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

What you plan is too small for you to live.

See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.