When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

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.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

God is alive in each one of us. We just need to bend our knees, hold our hands together and open our hearts to Him.

People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.

I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.

Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love.

Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.