What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.