Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

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

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

As writers we need to crack open language.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. Now, logically speaking, I know there is a difference. If you put elephants and ants before me, I believe that every time I will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. So metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. It comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant.