At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.

I always wanted to be pretty as a girl, although I believed it was not possible.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.