I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.

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.

Be fearless to live life.

People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get rusticated now!

Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.

I was raised as a red diaper baby.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal.