"History is not just about the past; it is about how we understand the present and shape the future."
"The task of art is to make the invisible visible."
"I think people are very interested in the idea of the family, and the idea of the family as a kind of battleground."
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.