Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.