Caroline

“Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.”
― William Carlos Williams

“A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.”
― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen