Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.

As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

Edward Hirsch Quotes