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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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Answer Carnal Charted Impermeable Ordinary Pierce Reading Right Routine Safe
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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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 mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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Each Explore Other Society Stake Stories Want
Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Common Dream Language Room Sleep
The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Eyelash Eyelashes Flicker Password

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