Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has ….

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….

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….

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected..

The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the….

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political..

When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing..

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of t….

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male ….

Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be ch….

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

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you….

Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; th….

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough..

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality..

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university..

Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction..

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

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….

Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other….

In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge o….