These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
I feel more helpless with you than without you.
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.