Every thing is changing every minute.

- Lucie Brock-Broido

I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had some…

- Lucie Brock-Broido

Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in the woods, I would probably work wi…

- Lucie Brock-Broido

Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I am only very conscio…

- Lucie Brock-Broido

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

- Lucie Brock-Broido

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

- Lucie Brock-Broido

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

- Lucie Brock-Broido

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

- Lucie Brock-Broido

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

- Lucie Brock-Broido