Occupation: Poet Birth: November 18, 1939
The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down..
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise..
Each form has its pluses and its minuses..
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it..
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered..
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and reg….
Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin..
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge….
Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign..
Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. ….
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?.
Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedspri….
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am..
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?.
In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacte….
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the c….
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it..
The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner..
If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever ….
... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an….
Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocra….