It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

Any woman's death diminishes me.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.

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