Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.