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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

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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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Body Instrument Mind relief Shape Trying
Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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Consciousness Country Denied Nation People Rationalism Rediscovered Therapy Underworld
Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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Cycle Feeling Process Revolutionary Running Still Thinking Transformative
There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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Country Incomprehension Institution Male Political Power Real Speaking
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Creating Possibility Telling Truth Woman
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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Along Creativity Darkness Entered Experience Given Happiness Life Poetry Repeatedly Use
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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Centuries Country Marriage Revolution Witch Worker
There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Complexity Increasing One System Thing Truth
The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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Door Limit Male Politics Return Revolution Same Tolerance
The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Body Erected Patriarchy Terrain Woman
It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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Destructiveness Dominated Male Refusal Self Society
“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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Commodity Culture Image Imposing Interest Marketing
Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Brotherhood Interest Least Loyal Men Own Self Since View World
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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Art Body Function Great Help Imagine Live Ourselves Skin Someone Something
A language is a map of our failures.
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Failure Language Map

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