One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.

The problem is we think we exist.

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.