“My surname for a mask to pretend!I have no stand to protest,but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana Naturova at Time's End' in the collection 'The Green Divorce')”
“and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.”
“But the thing is that I can hear Sam and Craig having sex, and for the first time in my life, I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.”
“I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.”
“I have put my arm down forever to interrupt the men who want more hair."from the poem "Pasadena" collected in Own Face (1978)”
“At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.”