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

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.

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.

God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself.

I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.