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.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.

I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.

If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act.

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

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.