I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls dow….

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage..

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings.

Lying is done with words and also with silence..

I feel more helpless with you than without you..

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events..

I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but ….

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salv….

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see..

I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize America….

Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in s….

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder.

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the dir….

Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the ….

The moment of change is the only poem..

But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mot….

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence..

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" wh….

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great de….

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They ….