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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”

Adrienne Rich

I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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Believe Citizen Class Country Dangerously Deeply Divided Election Government Middle Poor Rich Thieved Undergone
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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Believe Consciousness Fathered Insider Inspiring Institution Masculine Really War Woman
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Adolescence Carrying Lesbian Limb Sexuality Stretch
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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Art Artist Channel Clogged Concern Merely Misdirected Song Struggle Temporary
I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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Art Compost Concern Feel Field Flourish Guess Isolate Need Rich Unheard Writing
What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Changing See Seeing
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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Delicate Honorable Human Love People Process Relationship Self Truth Two Violent
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Concentration Language ower Poetry Power Relationship Ultimate Universe
It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Beyond Existence Own Poet Risk Some Survival
If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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Accept Assert Assimilated Definition History Male Past Philosophy Universe Wind Women
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Attempt Liar Lying Ought Simpler Usually
“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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Each Explore Other Society Stake Stories Want
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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Alternative Consciousness Destiny Flow Grain Idea
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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Control Greed Little May Poem Power Technological
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Beauty Darkness Let See

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