I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

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.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece!

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.