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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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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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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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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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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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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 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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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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