I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.