No One Can Write Like

I Was Very Lucky To Have A Mother Who Encouraged Me To Become A Poet.

You Have To Follow Where The Poem Leads. And It Will Surprise You. It Will Say Things You Didn't Expect To Say. And You Look At The Poem And You Realize, 'that Is Truly What I Felt.' That Is Truly What I Saw.

For Sure I Once Thought Of Myself As The Poet Who Would Save The Ordinary From Oblivion.

No One Can Write Like Vallejo And Not Sound Like A Fraud. He's Just Too Much Himself And Not You.

I Realized Poetry's The Thing That I Can Do 'cause I Can Stick At It And Work With Tremendous Intensity.