You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

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

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.