The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.

- Elaine Equi

I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I t…

- Elaine Equi

I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multi…

- Elaine Equi

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach …

- Elaine Equi

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-p…

- Elaine Equi

When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

- Elaine Equi

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

- Elaine Equi

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

- Elaine Equi

I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of th…

- Elaine Equi