I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.
If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.