I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

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.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

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

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.