Mary Jo Salter Quotes

And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.