3 Quotes by Heather McHugh

I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took...