There is never only one, of anyone

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Fear has a smell, as love does.