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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

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I came to explore the wreck.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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