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Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
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I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
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I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
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One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.
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If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
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The real drug, I came to believe, was love.
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The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
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There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
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At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful …
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The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
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When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.