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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Creating Possibility Telling Truth Woman
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
What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Culture Interstices Language Lying Powerful Secret
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Living Money No Stories Tell Wit
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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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
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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Alike Biological Bodies Charges Energy Giving Human Nature Nothing Probably Resonant Two
Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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Book Country End Immediately Poet Remarkable War World Wrote
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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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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Brotherhood Denying Law Less Man Nobel Prize Self Sister tenure Winning Woman
We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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Chosen Enter Envying Freedom Herself Identifies Imagine Room Think
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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Fermenting Intellectual Interest Kind Moral People Poetry Political Sensual Sexual Together
Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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Errant One Orphaned Own Seem Sporadic Thinking Tradition Way Women Work

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