I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.