When men are employed they are best contented.
Time has told me less than I need to know.
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.
What's grief but the after-blindnessof the spirit's dazzle of love?
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.
I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.