I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.

You can't make homes out of human beings.

At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.

When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.