There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen to a poem than it is to sit down and actually read it and to hear it in your head and that is something that every poet or aspiring poet needs to be able to do, I think to hear it in their head.

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.