We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

Writing is the act of discovery.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.