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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

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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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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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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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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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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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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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