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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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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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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 keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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