It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

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

Particularly in relationship to my father - there's something that daughters, girl children, do almost instinctually in their relationships with their father, so that physically, those boundaries must be respected and never crossed.

The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.