This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.