Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

Love will heal What language fails to know

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?

There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.