it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.