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Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.