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Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.