Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.

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.

Don't forget to wish your husband good-morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day.

The underlying principle of all Satan’s tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.

Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.

You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express.