“What is political activism anyway? It’s something both prepared for and spontaneous – like making poetry.” – Adrienne Rich

“Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.”

“O friend, we had not seen thee at this time,
And yet a power is on me and a strong
Confusion, and I seem to plant thee there.

"I like to think of moving through the sentence (as writer or reader) as moving through a kind of terrain.