Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then throw rocks at him."

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

I think the reason why I am who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.