“Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.”

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If I were you, I would

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"Hope is delicate suffering."

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I think of my life as

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When we get into bed at the day's end,

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Midnight Poem

What We Want
By Linda Pastan

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One truth that doesn't shake me at all:

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Emergency in 1 Line

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I felt grief climbing on every cell of my body when

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If we weren't away from each other,

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