War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

Life on the planet is born of woman.