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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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Actual Another Illuminate Important Most Possibilities Woman
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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Ambivalence Blissful Gratification Murderous Nerves Resentment Suffering
Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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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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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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Accept Assert Assimilated Definition History Male Past Philosophy Universe Wind Women
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Feeling Inspirational Pride Tricky
To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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Create Every Joined Keep Knowledge Long Passive Pipe Plumbing Script Something Used Writing
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
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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Carpet Closely Look Multiple Threads Tiny Underside Unseen Weaver

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