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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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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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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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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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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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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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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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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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