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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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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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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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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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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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