If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

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

poems are small moments of enlightenment