For A Poet, Making Poems Is A

In The United States ... Given The Cult Of Eternal Youth, Age Is Ignored Unless It Can Be Sentimentalized.

The Women's Movement Is A Non-hierarchical One. It Does Things Collectively And Experimentally.

The Present Always Masquerades As A Beginning; Maybe We Couldn't Endure It If We Realized At The Time That It Was A Peak, Or Even An Ending.

... Life Is A Comedy Far Darker Than Drama. It Just Takes Time To Learn What To Smile At.

Your Life Is The One Place You Have To Spend Yourself Fully--wild, Generous, Drastic--in An Unrationed Profligacy Of Self ... And In That Split Second When You Understand That You Finally Are About To Die-to Uncreate The World No Time To Do It Over No More Chances--that Instant When You Realize Your Conscious Existence Is Truly Flaring Nova, Won't You Want To Have Used Up All-all-the Splendor That You Are?