I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.