Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.