Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

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.

Get past the hard-on, and you could feel him. I mean really feel him.

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

I always try to address where I am. I'll talk to the people and try to find out what it is about that particular place that makes it distinct from everywhere else.

Movies are too literal.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.

A champion isn’t made of muscle; a champion is made of heart.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.