As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
“I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.”
“Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.”