I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.

Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.

Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.