All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine