When I was younger, yes, there was a part of me - and I wrote about that bit in Among the White Moon Faces - that wanted to be a boy. I wanted to be accepted by my brothers and to be their peers.

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.

Achievers are biased towards action despite any fear, and this courage sets them apart from others.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

I didn't choose to be an actress

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

Fasting is a medicine.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.