If you love the work, it will love you back.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.

Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.