What we want is never simple.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.

I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of the flesh which are real and finite.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

Grief is a circular staircase.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

Spring is the shortest season.

To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end, when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach, and the weather day after dayis flawless, and the forecastis hurricane.

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.