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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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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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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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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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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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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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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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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A language is a map of our failures.
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