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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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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Endangered Species Stranger
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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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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Been Compared Elder Generation Teach Worship
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
ADRIENNE RICH

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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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Body Instrument Mind relief Shape Trying
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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Breath Heart Short Simple Take
The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Country Own Patriotism Soul Wrestles
We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Art Decorate Dinner Hold Hostage Mean Nothing Power Table
The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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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.
ADRIENNE RICH

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