Who rides on a tiger can never dismount; asleep on an elephant, that is repose. - Marianne Moore

Yes, I believe in prayer, as a mystery which can endow one with more power perhaps than any other spiritual mystery, yet a mystery that cannot be exposited to a point where it is not a mystery.

If you demand on the other hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.