A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.