Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

Because at night
when others are sleeping,
I drown myself
in poetry.

I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.