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

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

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.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

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

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

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