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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.

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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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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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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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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.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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