I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.