Occupation: Poet Birth: March 31, 1936
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside..
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit a….
The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfie….
We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future.
Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the per….
The work of the world is common as mud..
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real..
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensua….
Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel..
Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seas….
The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it..
We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways..
Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk..
The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen..
We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flic….
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out..
I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell wha….
If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and partly because they amuse and entertain….
Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to somep….
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, a….
I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options….