No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.