I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

Love will heal What language fails to know

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Together forever, never apart. Sometimes in distance, but never in heart.

Your future depends of the choices you make today. The future for this reason can be predicted by your day to day living.

A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

Hillary went to a Chipotle in a tortilla pantsuit.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.