Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.