That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

I have always loved too much, or not enough.

We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

Most people put a hat and glasses on to go incognito. I take them off.

I don't typically drink coffee.

I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is key to moving forward.

Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!

Better immersion than to live untouched.