Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.
Mary Jo SalterThe one concession I've made as I've gotten older is that my children are now adults and they're in their twenties and thirties and so I'm careful about how I write about them. I may write about them as a child, but I'm not going to write about their current struggles because they're adults and they can do it for themselves. I want to give them some space in a way I didn't when they were younger.
Mary Jo SalterAnd I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.
Mary Jo SalterLike a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.
Mary Jo Salter