Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.

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.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.