I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

When I was young, I was older than I am today.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.