Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.