Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try to work on poetry every day and I do find some time every day that I can with some exceptions to work on poetry.

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.