“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

“To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”

“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily--perhaps not possibly--chronological. The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.”

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”

“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.”

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.”