I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

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

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.