Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind