People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

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.

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.

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back

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

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