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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.

Adrienne Rich

The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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Country Difficulty Further Movement Novelist People Phrases Realize Two Wolf
We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Fascism Great Group Learned People Psychologist Relationship Repression Sexual Support Wrote
… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Dreamt Giving Room World
It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Beyond Existence Own Poet Risk Some Survival
Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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All Equal Grief Tear Women
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Feel Helpless More Without You
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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Control Greed Little May Poem Power Technological
The moment of change is the only poem.
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Change Healing Moment Poem Poetry
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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Body Complexity Desire Dream Fecundity Struggle Struggling Truth Unconcious
It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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Children Day Eye Message Mothers Smile Stroking Read Touch
The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Apparated Asking Crucial Movement Political Voice Women
I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Don't Learning Trust Use
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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Change Changing Cities Despair Hope Mean
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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Alone Enough Meadow Midnight Planet Rotating Sleep Sleeping Touch Turning
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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Citizen Class Generation Grief Magnet National Race Relationship Wall War

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