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.

Love will heal What language fails to know

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

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

It's telepathy, over.

You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.