Experience is always larger than language.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

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

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.