When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

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.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

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.

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.