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

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

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.

To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.

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.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.