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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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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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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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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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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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