Poetry keeps longing alive.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

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.

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.