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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- 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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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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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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