Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.