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.

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

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

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