How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there is real incredible work [of art] that comes out of it. Never forget that.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

My teachers were often very eccentric.

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me.