What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.