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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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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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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
ADRIENNE RICH

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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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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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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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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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