I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to experience something and when you begin to write about it be able to apply the tools that you need for writing.

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

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

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.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.