"I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind."

"The moment of change is the only poem."

"When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever."

"Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness"

"The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life."

"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"

"Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep."

"The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth."

"If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the riverbed with its five fingers spread"

"War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure."

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters that beak which grips her, she becomes."

"...you look at me like an emergency"

"No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors."

"I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them."

"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

"I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die."

"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world."

"It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple"

"If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up."

"Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves."

"[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone."

"No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city."

"I feel more helpless with you than without you".""

"I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons"