I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

Secret Notes:
He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood & they will need help figuring things out & I won't always be around to explain it to them.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.