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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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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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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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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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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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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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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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