I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end, when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach, and the weather day after dayis flawless, and the forecastis hurricane.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

It's a choice, it’s a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!

Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.