 It's really important for me that I am not going to be one of these journalists or poets or writers who comes to somebody, extracts their wisdom and pain and their beauty and then shares it with others. To me, that's something that journalism, literature, and poetry have done far too often. So that to me was the most important thing. What can a poem do, really, is to capture some kind of essence of a spirit in motion in the world and with all of its longing and all of its past and all of its hope.