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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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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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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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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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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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