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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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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.
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Coming Imagine Increasingly Poetry Position Theatre Thinking Voice
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Artist Dishonoured Honor Legal People President
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Desire Dream Invent Lose Success Use
Only where there is language is there world.
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Language Only World
If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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Ceased Day Exist Immediately Poetry Reinvented Same
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Feeling Inspirational Pride Tricky
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
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
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Concentration Language ower Poetry Power Relationship Ultimate Universe
Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Birth Child Children Grow Up Waiting
What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Beast Kind Life Turn
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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Among Counted Down Must None Perhaps Sit Weep
I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Don't Learning Trust Use
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard People Way
Strangers are an endangered species.
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Endangered Species Stranger
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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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Believe Consciousness Fathered Insider Inspiring Institution Masculine Really War Woman
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Day Historical History New News Truth
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Androcentric Dependent Foundation Leave Marginal Solipsistic Thinking Tunnel Variable Vision
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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Batter Callousness Child Children Exploitation Force Mother Poverty Sickness War
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
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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