I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't know where the poems come from, and I feel, at least in the beginning, that I'm… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves. — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
The one concession I've made as I've gotten older is that my children are now adults and they're in their twenties and thirties and… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough. — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
A number of people have written poems about Trump already, and I salute them. He is so beyond anything we could have imagined and… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of. — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert, then write… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in their heads;… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
