Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without her. The novel would write itself.

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.

Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to?

People respond when they are taught, and that primarily by example, rather than preached at. Jesus modeled just this approach in His life."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

When I am weak then am I strong.

A gun is not an argument.

Anytime you don't want anything you get it.

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.