I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

Unhealthy relationships keep our self-esteem low.

If You Do Not Know, it is Useless to Explain, Because You Would Not Understand"__nickc

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

Golf, more than most games, has a number of clichés, often successfully disguised as 'tips'. Watch out!

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.