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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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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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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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Experience is always larger than language.
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