Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

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.

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.