The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

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.

He who called her so called her by her true name, for she is the full moon of full moons, afore God!

Words and sentences are subjects of revision paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.

I bought all those [fitness] videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.

I've been a Raider all my life.

Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.