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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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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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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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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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