Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

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.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

They oppressed us but unable to kill our spirit.

Freedom is your birthright!

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.