"There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals…"

"It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse."

"But now that I am in love with a place which doesn’t care how I look, or if I’m happy,happy is how I look."

"I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smot…"

"Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monu…"

"My verse forms are relatively traditional (traditions alter). In general they have moved away from strict classical p…"

"Perhaps relationships work more powerfully when there is absence and tension and a lot of heartache. I can't live wit…"

"Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readine…"

"All poets, all writers, are terrible parasites. We use people and experiences."

"A centipede was happy – quite! Until a toad in fun Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?" This raised her doubts …"