I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.