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.

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

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?

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?'

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