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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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