If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
As writers we need to crack open language.
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.