I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

I think we mustn't be afraid of the truth.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.