Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body's pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA.

There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.