Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.