I Feel Empowered To Be

A Farmer Is Dependent On Too Many Things Outside His Control; It Makes For Modesty.

I Flew Into A Small Airport Surrounded By Cornfields And Pastures, Ready To Carry Out The Two Commands My Father Had Written Out For Me The Night Before I Left Calcutta: Spend Two Years Studying Creative Writing At The Iowa Writers Workshop, Then Come Back Home And Marry The Bridegroom He Selected For Me From Our Caste And Class.

The Traveler Feels At Home Everywhere, Because She Is Never At Home Anywhere.

What Was The Function Of Poetry If Not To Improve The Petty, Cautious Minds Of Evasive Children?

I'm Very Moved By Chaos Theory, And That Sense Of Energy. That Quantum Physics. We Don't Really, In Hindu Tradition, Have A Father Figure Of A God. It's About Cosmic Energy, A Little Spark Of Which Is Inside Every Individual As The Soul.