You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

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

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.