And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

But then had come the voice that said, "Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, let’s get this done with.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

Wisdom is only found in truth.

I always say that I started in television when harassed was two words instead of one.

People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.