Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

My husband says spring will be early.He says this every year, And every year I disagree.He needs me, the dark side of the planetary equation.Together we make the equinox.

I thought if only we could go onand meet again, shy as strangers.

Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.

Those who hurt, Screw up, if you are lucky Demons will let you watch.

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.

No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.