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I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

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