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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.

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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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Complacency Despair Disregarded Encounter Erased Extent Hear Help Matter Numbness Self Selves Society Unvoiced
I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Different Guess Mine Sew Skin Stitch Together
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Assumption Drenched Know Ourselves Until
I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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Call Jewels Love Sex Tale Year
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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Coming Imagine Increasingly Poetry Position Theatre Thinking Voice
Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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Aspiration Easy Fall Mean Refuse Responsibility Sell Shallow Solution Talent Yourself
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Attempt Liar Lying Ought Simpler Usually
That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Country Failure Feel Good Helping Measure Represented Themselves War
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Absolute Country Failure Imagination People Political Scientific War
Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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Enough Language Longer Personal
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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Country Danger Present Tense
Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Biology Ignorance Key Ourselves Powerlessness
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Culture Interstices Language Lying Powerful Secret
In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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Compared Country Need Personal Poetry Retrenchment Support Thinking
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Country Own Patriotism Soul Wrestles
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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Blackness Children Dawn Light Running Twilight Women

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