The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.