That was why I resolved to write my first drafts in longhand, slowest of the various means of committing thoughts to paper, before I started doing later drafts on the typewriter; that is why I still do my first few drafts in longhand today;

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips.

It is a delicate & difficult art fitting rhythm to an idea...communicating momentary phases in a poet's mind.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

Poetry is kind of a constant in my life and so that’s something that just won’t ever change because poetry is what allows me to write the prose that I do.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

The process of poetry consists firstly in maintaining this vision in its integrity and secondly in expressing this vision in words.

I guess am a poet because I love to reframe complicated ideas into prose and poems that grab at heartstrings.

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

Every collection of poetry makes a force field of energy. When creating you give yourself over to it. In the fiercest moments of imagination the artist may not know where they are going, the how and when of it, and it doesn't matter. What matters is the process regenerates and meaning shifts at every turn.

It is with my hand and with my heart that I write, not with my eyes