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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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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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Beyond Existence Own Poet Risk Some Survival
Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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Book Country End Immediately Poet Remarkable War World Wrote
the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Abortion Deep Desperate First Herself Violence Woman
But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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Bodies Body Mind Mother Women
And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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Believe Citizen Class Country Dangerously Deeply Divided Election Government Middle Poor Rich Thieved Undergone
I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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Born Each Help Helping Knowing Live Somehow Somewhere Tomorrow
Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Connectedness Creativity Human Love Sense Sexually
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
There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Complexity Increasing One System Thing Truth
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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Child Children Female Identity Intense Motherhood Process Reciprocal
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Bear Destruction Longer Scar Witness

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