Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

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

A writer must say yes to life.

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