When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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

But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.