In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

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.

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.

No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win."Merit/Jonah

I am mad, and I embrace it.

I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.

I'm not ok - you're not ok and that's ok.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - your the only person that can decide what's in it.

There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.