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

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.

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.

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

All good things comes to those who wait.

Don't imitate. Find your own writing voice and hone it until it is yours alone.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

I dont know how to say this but... I LOVE YOU

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.