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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.

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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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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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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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The moment of change is the only poem.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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