"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves."

"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."

"Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it."

"Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading."

"Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence."

"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."

"Where thou art, that is home."

"My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music."