We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

The moment of change is the only poem.

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”