Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

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.

To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.