Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye, " Ferbus said too loudly. "Then it's one-eyed fun.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.

My heart is with Hillary Clinton.

Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!