The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?

have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.