Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

Keeping a journal implies hope.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.