"So many of us! So many of us!We are shelves, we are Tables, we are meek, We are edible,Nudgers and shovers In spite o…"

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New…"

"What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?"

"I happened to be at Cambridge. I was sent there by the [US] government on a government grant. And I'd read some of Te…"

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again."

"How frail the human heart must be — a mirrored pool of thought."

"I am jealous of men. I envy the man his physical freedom to lead a double life."

"I am deeply grateful to the women who really blazed the way-poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath and Maxine Kumin."

"Being born a woman is my awful tragedy."

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars wer…"