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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Feel Helpless More Without You
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Desire Dream Invent Lose Success Use
I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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Create Every Joined Keep Knowledge Long Passive Pipe Plumbing Script Something Used Writing
Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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Breaking Broken Historian might Poem Question Real Silence Tended
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Assumption Drenched Know Ourselves Until
Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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Attempt Correspond Dangerously Daughter Mother Personalities Personality
A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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Between Bodies Inside Knowledge Month Preverbal Subliminal Subversive
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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Conscious Cutting Interval Light Profane Revelation Self Stopped Time
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Culture Interstices Language Lying Powerful Secret
Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Art Community Creative Energy Enormous Hunger Solitude Women Work
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
We have lived with violence far too long.
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Lived Long Violence
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Monster Sleep Think Thinking Woman
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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False Glamour Longer Mistrust Performance Poverty Theatricality Transcendental
What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Changing See Seeing
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Able Anger Except Inward Nail Rusted Touch Women

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