I write what's given me to write.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.