In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.

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

"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades.

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.

The body in defense against male appropriation expresses itself through work in writing, and the work in writing produces the book. So it's a different form of creation and generation that may be viewed as creation without male contribution as a component or challenge.

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