I Remember Mother Saying :

A World Is To Be Fought For, Sung, And Built: Love Must Imagine The World.

The 'idea' For The Poem, Which May Come As An Image Thrown Against Memory, As A Sound Of Words That Sets Off A Traveling Of Sound And Meaning, As A Curve Of Emotion (a Form) Plotted By Certain Crises Of Events Or Image Or Sound, Or As A Title Which Evokes A Sense Of Inner Relations; This Is The First 'surfacing' Of The Poem. Then A Period Of Stillness May Follow.

I Hear The Singing Of The Lives Of Women. They Clear Mystery, The Offering, And Pride.

Outrage And Possibility Are In All The Poems We Know.

The Process Of Writing A Poem Represents Work Done On The Self Of The Poet, In Order To Make Form.