“all that really matters to me is that there are critics.”

“My thoughts are really all I think about.”

“The universe can be incredible! Just try to take this moment in. This is really something!”

“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.”

“Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.”

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

“Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.”