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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

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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 impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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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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Experience is always larger than language.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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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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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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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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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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