Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.