There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

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.

If Christians read Holy Scripture, they will grow in the Knowledge of Christ. And be filled with the grace of God.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

Crises precede transformation.

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

There’s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.

I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.