One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

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

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.

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