About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

For after all we make our faces as we go along.

Women's work is always toward wholeness.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.