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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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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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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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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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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Lived Long Violence
It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard Important People Way
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Dream Know Like Poem Put
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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