Working women went through a time when they believed that.

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.

[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.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

The way to my heart is through your heart.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

The doctrines that have been preached in our churches in Africa and globally has not been helpful for believers to dominate the earth.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Casey Anthony was found not guilty. This means that President Obama’s economic team is only the second-most clueless group in America.

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.