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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.

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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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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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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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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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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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