poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.
There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
People who cannot feel punish those who do.
Your poems will happen when no one is there.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.