I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

What writing does is to reveal.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

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

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.