The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

You have to know what you want to get it.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.