So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

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.

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.

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

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

The older I get, the more I feel.