Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text.

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

You put cow dung on my face?’ ‘Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

Words are spiritual containers.

Believe it or not, Twitter calms me down. I enjoy interacting with people.

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.

The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.