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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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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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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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