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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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