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.
ADRIENNE RICHTo allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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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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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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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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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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