I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

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.

It is because of my principle that people continue to give.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework

I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.