1. as some strings, untouched,sound when no one is speaking.So it was when love slipped inside us.
Come, Thief: Poems
2. One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
3. One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
4. Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.
