I Carry A Notebook With Me Everywhere.

Courage Has Nothing To Do With Our Determination To Be Great. It Has To Do With What We Decide In That Moment When We Are Called Upon To Be More.

It's The Combination Of The Intimate And The Public That I Find So Exciting About Being Poet Laureate.

Going To The Library Was The One Place We Got To Go Without Asking For Permission. And They Let Us Choose What We Wanted To Read. It Was A Feeling Of Having A Book Be Mine Entirely.

I Didn't Know Writers Could Be Real Live People, Because I Never Knew Any Writers.

The Poetry That Sustains Me Is When I Feel That, For A Minute, The Clouds Have Parted And I've Seen Ecstasy Or Something