"The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last."

"It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but n…"

"The poem will not survive on content but through voice. By voice I mean the style of thought, for which a style of sp…"

"You have to live your life if you're going to do original work. Your work will come out of an authentic life, and if …"

"Father has his arm around Tereze. She squints. My thumb is in my mouth: my fifth autumn. Near the copper beech the sp…"

"Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer."

"Intense love always leads to mourning."

"The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams."

"From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved."

"My bed usually looks like Proust’s bed; my whole life is lived there."