I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

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.

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.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.