Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

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.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Macrame is effortless.

There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true.

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

A good antidote to nostalgia is to go home, and then you remember why you left.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.