Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

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.

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.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!