Amazement awaits us at every corner.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.