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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Experience is always larger than language.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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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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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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