I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

Hypocrite shouts about the change, but never let risk coming on his way.

It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly, It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

Wish for the best, problems will follow you, challenges will come in the way when you move on, and your wisdom of learning will save you!

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.

You like? You are happy? Yes? Okay, go! Go in the street.

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.