I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.

The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.