Love will heal What language fails to know

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.

The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, " I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.

All Life needs for life is possible to will.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

Aussie sledging? I'm just glad they've heard of me!

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.