Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.
Poetry to me is prayer.
I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.