I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.

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.

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.

What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.