If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.