The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

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

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

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.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness