I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.

I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.

We live inside our parents' backstory.

I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.