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

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

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

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.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.