a poet never feels useful.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.

have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.