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

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.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

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.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

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