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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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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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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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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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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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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 order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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