“Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.”
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When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
