Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

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.

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.

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.

It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

There's only of him, she thought, and he's right here.

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

Tell the world you are a one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.