I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

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.

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records to outstrip our yesterdays by our today to do our work with more force than ever before.

Chansons possibles ou impossibles

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.