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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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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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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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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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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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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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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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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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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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