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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.

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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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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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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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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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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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