Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.