It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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.
Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.
Inspiration is the key to everything.
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
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