Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.