in dialogue

"poetry was not so much an art for me but more like processing, and I just don't know any other way how to experience things that are so difficult without poetry." 

"Your children will be left-brain and right-brain talented, and will still choose the starving artist." 

"That's part of the fun of it, it's just kind of messing around until you get something beautiful." 

"Don’t let someone else’s success define your own creative process or what you write or choose to submit. Keep creating, keep submitting, just enjoy what you do."

"My middle school self would look at that painting and think, 'this is it.'" 

"Everything is in reference to something else that's been recreated, so nothing is built in this world that's new. It's just refreshed, from a new lens." 

"It's literally just color; you get color and put it wherever you want." 

"It is totally achievable, it can be really realistic. You just have to make it achievable."