I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
“I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.”