We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Keeping a journal implies hope.
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.