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.

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.

don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

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

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.