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I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

My work should be seen as poetry.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.