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

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.

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.

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.

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

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

It's easier to eat nothing than to eat something.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!

So if we use birth control we don't need to be married?

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Religion is not the most important thing.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.