“I am a student of life, and don t want to miss any experience. There s poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don t know, but it s all the same.”
“God help us for we knew the worst too young.”
“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.”
“One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer s physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.”