“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

“I am five, I will never understandwhy we are stranded in our selvesbut in this moment I knowmy own storyis understanding our singlenessthat I am destined to move my body and timeinto the body-timethe storyof Others.”

“When I was a girlthe books I read were by men. ”

“The local paper is called the World.”

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair!I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

“I like to quote the words of Kierkegaard, that 'life ia a poem that we are able to write ourselves; but a Christian lets God write his life's poem.”

“If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.”