These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals; a kind of secret code.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

When words are put together in fresh ways there is a pleasure-giving quality in language, which brings a release of endorphins.