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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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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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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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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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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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