There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

It doesn't matter which line you walk, it's gray just like any other

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.

There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing over me - with love.

I refuse to live my life in fear.

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.