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I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.