One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.

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.

We all have some talents and abilities that differentiate us from others

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.