"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it"

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship"

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family"

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas"

"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"

"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"

"No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship"

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

"I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me"