I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.