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.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others, because they reside in far too private a chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily trouble, but often the opposite. To have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.