Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.

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

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.