”Sometimes when I read poems at a reading to strangers, I realize they think those poems are me. They are not me, even if I speak in the ‘I’ person. They were my thoughts and my hand and the space and the emotions at that time of writing. Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh. That is how writing is. Instead of freezing us, it frees us.”

- from Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones