All poetry comes from repetition.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.