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

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

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

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.