"I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?"

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open."

"These are roads to take when you think of your country and interested bring down the maps again, phoning the statisti…"

"Here is your road, tyingyou to its meanings: gorge, boulder, precipice. Telescoped down, the hard and stone-green riv…"

"What do you want — a cliff over a city? A foreland, sloped to sea and overgrown with roses? These people live here."

"This is to be a summary poem of the life of the Atlantic coast of this country, nourished by the communications which…"

"To be a Jew in the twentieth century Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse, Wishing to be invisible, you choose Deat…"

"The whole and fertile spirit as guarantee For every human freedom, suffering to be free, Daring to live for the impos…"

"In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgot…"

"Many of our poems are such monuments. They offer the truths of outrage and the truths of possibility."