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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.

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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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Experience is always larger than language.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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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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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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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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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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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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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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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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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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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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