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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Bridges Especially Interested Line Long Poem Scoring Space Thinking
The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Changing See Seeing
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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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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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Integrity Liar Silence Truth Word
And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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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 woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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