I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.