The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.

Heresy makes for progress.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.

The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.