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

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.