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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Adrienne Rich

It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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Alone Disturb Enrapture Monster Monstrous People Speak Themselves
Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Birth Child Children Grow Up Waiting
A language is a map of our failures.
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Failure Language Map
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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Change Continuity Dialectric Instructive Life Light People Personal
The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Choice Examination Multiple Number Pencil Sheet
In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Bringing Console Create Sustain Vision Woman
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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Coming Imagine Increasingly Poetry Position Theatre Thinking Voice
“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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Commodity Culture Image Imposing Interest Marketing
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Art Decorate Dinner Hold Hostage Mean Nothing Power Table
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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Art Dignity Hope Overall Thinking
I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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Adopted Country Exotic Myself Mysticisms People Suspicious Tendency Understanding White
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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Art Effort Going Historical More Order Repression Simulate Society Target Turmoil Various
It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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Art Come Committed Desire Economic Enormous Institution Poetry Require Social
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Conscious Cutting Interval Light Profane Revelation Self Stopped Time
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Complicated Delusion Fake False Journey Memories Naming Past People Real

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