I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

The classics can console. But not enough.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.

I read; I travel; I become

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.