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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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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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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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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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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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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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