Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.