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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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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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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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