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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Changing Language Mean Reality Writing
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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Catering Controlling Erotic Guilt Heart Marble Mother Patriarchy Provoking Riddem Son
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Androgyne Child Children Dead Describe Infinite Language Living Lost Mind Name Newborn Noun Surviving Verb
Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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Amid Country Dysfunction Finding Increasing Society
he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Death Depth Female Menses Monster Moon Ocean Ride Sailor Themselves Tide
To do something very common, in my own way.
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Common My Own Something Way
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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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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Knew Mother Nothing Prepared Realization State Uncertain
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Create Fearfully Impulse Real Silence Terribly Tunnel Voice
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Body Feeling Political Touch
The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Eyelash Eyelashes Flicker Password
Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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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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Count Few Hard Important People Way
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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Again Delta Direction Flow Grasp One River Springing Story Thinking
Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Death Diminish Diminishes Woman
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Darkness Found Light Rejecting Treasure
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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