Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

- Amy Clampitt

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

- Amy Clampitt

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

- Amy Clampitt

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

- Amy Clampitt

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

- Amy Clampitt