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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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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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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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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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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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