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

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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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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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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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