After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for 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.

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

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

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text.

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

Biology doesn't make anyone a parent, " Cassia added as she tucked her Eturian prayer stone beneath her shirt.

Having to sing makes me feel like a singer. And I don't view myself as a singer, but I guess I now am, because I am singing every day.

There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

Of course fashion is definitely playing a part.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls.