I want, I want, I want! We never grow out of it somehow. Unless we become Buddhists, maybe.

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 race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...

Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

My mother wasnʹt sleeping with anybody. She doesnʹt even sleep with my father.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

I like Cilantro, but you don't have to.