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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.