I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

life is the most valuble thing money isn´t

I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

I'm still alive, which is pretty cool.

We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style.

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible