Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am.

I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

There comes a time when only anger is love.